Though Operation Metro Surge has officially ended, the Trump administration continues to abduct people from the Twin Cities. Three people were also taken from Madison this week, and Salah Sarsour, the president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque, was detained on April 3 and remains in ICE detention. In response, host Esty Dinur is in conversation with two organizers with Workers’ Solidary Circle–Kip Hedges and Cal Robinette–about the lessons other communities can learn from ICE resistance in the Twin Cities.

Reflecting on the last few months, Hedges says that they’ve achieved a “partial victory” against the Trump regime and its immigration policies. The victory is partial because racial profiling, police brutality, and the effects of living under occupation continue. Robinette says that the rapid response infrastructure is changing as the number of abductions decrease, but hyper-local organizing is still the focus of the resistance.

There is still work to do. Robinette describes the impending eviction crisis and how Minneapolis is attempting to build a $38 million “cop city” for training police and other first responders. They also discuss the role of labor unions like IBEW and teachers unions in organizing resistance.

Kip Hedges is a long time working class organizer, who worked for 30 years as a baggage handler for Delta Air Lines. He is a retired member of the Machinists Union and member of Workers’ Solidarity Circle and DSA.

Cal Robinette is a member of the IBEW and helped get an anti ICE resolution passed in his local. He is also a member of Workers’ Solidarity Circle.

Featured image from an anti-ice protest from January 2026 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

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